Walter Pidgeon

One of 1940s Hollywood's most dignified leading men, Walter
Pidgeon received two Best Actor nominations in the course of his career
and starred in two Oscar-winning Best Pictures.

Pidgeon as Mr. Gruffydd in the Best Picture of 1941, John
Ford's HOW
GREEN WAS MY VALLEY. One of my favorite films ever, this masterpiece
based on Richard Llewellyn's fabulous novel, features Pidgeon opposite
Maureen O'Hara in one of
the greatest love stories on film.

A poster from THE BAD AND THE BEAUTIFUL
with Kirk Douglas, Lana Turner and Gloria
Grahame. Pidgeon played studio head Harry Pebbel in this dramatic satire
of the movie industry which earned six nominations and five Academy Awards
in 1952.

A poster from FORBIDDEN PLANET (1956), a successful and critically
approved science-fiction version of Shakespeare's The Tempest. Pidgeon
played the mad scientist Dr. Moribus, who built a one-man empire on the
planet Altair-4 with the help of his daughter and Robby the Robot.